Twenty-six titles have been published in this series,
designed as handbooks for a two-year intermediate
level agricultural education and training course.
They may be purchased as a set or as individual
documents.

FIRST YEAR

The plant: the living plant; the root

The plant: the stem; the buds; the leaves

The plant: the flower

The soil: how the soil is made up

The soil: how to conserve the soil

The soil: how to improve the soil

Crop farming

Animal husbandry: feeding and care of animals

Animal husbandry: animal diseases; how animals
reproduce

SECOND YEAR

The farm business survey

Cattle breeding

Sheep and goat breeding

Keeping chickens

Farming with animal power

Cereals

Roots and tubers

Groundnuts

Bananas

Market gardening

Upland rice

Wet paddy or swamp rice

Cocoa

Coffee

The oil palm

The rubber tree

The modern farm business

PREFACE

This manual is a translation and adaptation of “L'hévéa,”
published by the Agri-Service-Afrique of the Institut africain
pour le développement économique et social (lNADES),and
forms part of a series of 26 booklets. Grateful acknowledgement
is made to the publishers for making available this text,
which it is hoped will find widespread use at the intermediate
level of agricultural education and training in English-speaking
countries.

The original texts were prepared for an African environment
and this is naturally reflected in the English version. However,
it is expected that many of the manuals of the series —
a list of which will be found on the inside front cover — will
also be of value for training in many other parts of the world.
Adaptations can be made to the text where necessary owing
to different climatic and ecological conditions.

Applications for permission to issue this manual in other
languages are welcomed. Such applications should be
addressed to: Director, Publications Division, Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Via delle
Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy.

The author of this English version is Mr. A.J. Henderson,
former Chief of the FAO Editorial Branch.

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